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In the Shadow of War: Social, Distributive and Civil Conflicts in Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine

Cerami, Alfio - 2023

This article examines the relationship between presence of vertical and horizontal inequalities and the emergence of social, distributive and civil conflicts in Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine. Are ethnic, religious or linguistic...

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Economic philosophy of al-Mawardi: Review of economic behaviour in Islamic economic

Jaelani, Aan - 2017

Economic behaviour in the study of Islamic economics is the basis for the government to portray political ethics and ethical economic functions of individuals in functioning as a member of society. Secular ethics and religious ethics, according to al-Mawardi, as the code of conduct in conducting...

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The Challenges of the Administrative Process in a Financial Crisis and their Effectiveness

Dumitrescu-Peculea, Adelina; Dogaru, Tatiana-Camelia - 2016

When we think back to the financial crisis which has been over for a few years now, we can only see the negative aspects. However, the positive aspects are incontestable. One of these aspects is represented by the efforts of making the public administrative processes more efficient. Managers of...

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Economic Philosophy of al-Mawardi: Economic Behavior in Adab al-Dunya wa-al-Din and al-Ahkam al-Sulthaniyah

Jaelani, Aan - 2016

Economic behavior in the study of Islamic economics is the basis for the government to portray political ethics and ethical economic functions of individuals in functioning as a member of society. Secular ethics and religious ethics, according to al-Mawardi, as the code of conduct in conducting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015251305

Electoral systems and the distortion of voters' preferences

Piolatto, Amedeo - 2008

In this paper I show that in a parliamentary democracy, contrary to common wisdom, under a proportional electoral rule governments do not necessarily represent voters' preferences better than under plurality rule. While voters affect the composition of Parliament, decisions are taken by a subset...

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Plurality versus proportional electoral rule: which is most representative of voters?

Piolatto, Amedeo - 2008

This study compares the representativeness of voters in the proportional electoral system with the situation under plurality rule. Representativeness is commonly measured by comparing parties' received votes with their shares of seats in the Parliament; this implies that proportional rule should...

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Allocation of scarce resources when rationality is one of them: some consequences of cognitive inequalities for theory and policy

Pelikan, Pavel - 2007

"Rationality" is understood in the empirical sense of cognitive abilities of human brains for solving economic problems, and consequently recognized bounded in individually unequal ways. This is shown to require treating it as a unique scarce resource, used for deciding on its own uses. This...

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Public choice and political science: A view from Europe

Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - 2018

Abstract. What is the status of rational choice theory in contemporary European political science? Compared with a quarter-century ago, the rational choice approach is still far from being the paradigm of work in the discipline, but looking at both anecdotal evidence and information derived from...

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Voting in the Goods and Service Tax Council of India

Bhattacherjee, Sanjay; Sarkar, Palash - 2018

to be by weighted voting. This work performs a detailed study of such a mechanism using the framework of formal voting … games. On a theoretical note, we introduce several new notions regarding blocking dynamics of voting games. These are then … applied to the study of voting in the GST context. We identify a set of basic desiderata and propose some modifications to the …

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Voting in the Goods and Services Tax Council of India

Bhattacherjee, Sanjay; Sarkar, Palash - 2018

government and the Provincial governments. The decision making procedure in this Council is specified to be by weighted voting …. We perform a detailed study of such a mechanism using the framework of formal voting games. On a theoretical note …, several new notions regarding blocking dynamics of voting games are introduced. These are then applied to the voting mechanism …

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